Mesopotamia - The City of Babylon

Tiglath pelasa conquered lands in syria and marched all the way down the mediterranean coast, taking coastal cities all the way to egypt. He invaded the northern kingdom of israel, destroyed their army installed a puppet king and deported large numbers of hebrew tribes back to lands in assyria. And tiglath lasa also added one more remarkable new possession to the list of assyrian conquests, that was the mighty and ancient capital of the south,. The great city of babylon had been political and religious heart of southern mesopotamia for more than a thousand years.